Cone Hospital review [May-July, 1972]

              MOSES CONE HOSPITAL
REVIEW
Vol. VII,  No.  1
GREENSBORO,  NORTH  CAROLINA
May-July,  1972
Trustees, Officers
Are Re-Elected
At the annual meeting of the
Board of Trustees in May, all Officers and Trustees whose terms expired this year were re-elected.
Mr. Ceasar Cone, President of the
Board, was re-elected to the Board
and to the office of President.
Other Trustees whose terms of office expired this year and who were
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At Northwood Site
Clinic Operations Begin
Moses Cone Hospital began operation of its Outpatient Department in
a portion of the county health department building on Northwood Avenue July 3.
At that time the Family Practice
Center, the Medical Clinic and the
Pediatric clinic were opened.
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Adopted by Standing Applause
Annual Membership Meeting
May 26,  1972
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These replace the Guilford County
free health clinic and are an outgrowth of negotiations carried on between the hospital and the county
commissioners during the months
since 1969.
At that time the commissioners
decided to close the free clinics, believing the Medicaid program begun
in January, 1970 would replace the
health facility need.
This directly affected the UNC
Teaching Programs of the hospital
because family medicine residents
had helped staff the clinic as part of
their training. Additionally, the
medical and dental staff members
believed the clinic closing would
place a heavy burden on private
physicians.
With the Medical and Dental staff
voting to back the clinics, the Trustees and the commissioners reached
accord which has resulted in the
opening of the new Outpatient Department.
The commissioners agreed to operate the clinic until the hospital
took over, to pay for medical expenses of indigent persons, provide
social workers to determine whether
a person was eligible for the free
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Lyday, McLendon
Heading Services
Dr. John E. Lyday has been appointed Chief of Surgery of the hospital and took office on July 1,
succeeding Dr. Robert L. Phillips.
Dr. Lyday was appointed to the
three-year term by the Board of
Trustees at their annual meeting in
May.
A native of Brevard, he received
his BS degree from UNC, Chapel
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